if the weather temp only pings weather.com every 30mins for an update it should be very very small. If you were to ping weather.com every 1 min then that's a different story.

The other thing to think about is what service to use when polling the weather. Would that have to be customizable? Possibly due to users being from all around the world.

Garrett's patch I think pulls from Yahoo. There is weather.com, accuweather, wunderground, etc... not sure on accuracy of those sites, APIs available for use, etc...

It seems a lot of the weather apps for webOS use many different sources.

The other part is the weather is tied to one location. Would that be able to be changed based on location or a way to quick input a zip or other data instead of needing to use GPS...

I think it is all very interesting and depending on how it is setup, I'd be all for something like this, especially if you could have a way to say put it in the middle where Sconix's today menu is, but still give access to the today menu or by doing something different to access a "weather" menu that shows more locations... Something method for showing the today menu one way and a weather menu another way.

Maybe an app is the best place for it then. Maybe there could be a front end app that controls the menus or something.... that would be awesome!

Actually I have had showing weather on top bar on my todo list quite long time now and I saw this today and I must say I am interested of integrating it to my patch. The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how, I mean I want to make it possible for user to decide is time/date/weather etc shown in the top bar, but I would like to use the center part of the bar in some clever way which I haven't yet figured out

I really like Garrett's weather patch, and I would love for the two of you to work together to either integrate your patches, or at least resolve conflicts.

I had an idea for the center of the top bar that I mentioned to Garrett today, and I believe he is already working on it. It was for a two line stacked display of Date and Time, like his stacked cpu temp and batt percent top bar patch. Something like this:

I checked the folder /media/cryptofs/apps/usr/lib/ipkg/info but couldn't find any hints of an old installation.

any more ideas to make it work again?

If you mean the reset functionality in the phone it wont restore any system files, only configuration. And your problem is files that are not in original state (patch package has been uninstalled, but the patch is still applied i.e. modified files exists in the system). Which EPR should fix in every situation unless the backup files were deleted or something odd has happened since nothing should delete those backup files. So if EPR wont restore your files then you have to do it manually. There was/is a handy tool for that called WebOS repair utility which was able to do that automatically but as long as I know it does not work for WebOS 2.x yet.

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The device menu supports setting the voice roaming to roam only, see the wiki.

I looked at the wiki and saw it read:

"Network

Automatic: [Carrier Only | Roam Only | Automatic]
This setting has been modified to include the Roam Only option. This setting determines whether or not your device will stay on only your carrier’s voice network, only roaming, or automatic in which it will connect to the best available network. "

But my menu does not have those options, as shown in the pic. No matter what option I press it stays in Auto. Am I doing something wrong?

Automatic: [Carrier Only | Roam Only | Automatic]
This setting has been modified to include the Roam Only option. This setting determines whether or not your device will stay on only your carrier’s voice network, only roaming, or automatic in which it will connect to the best available network. "

But my menu does not have those options, as shown in the pic. No matter what option I press it stays in Auto. Am I doing something wrong?

What wiki page you reading? The Advanced System Menus wiki page doesn't have a section like you posted above.

You must be looking at the Advanced Configurations wiki page. In which case...

a) you posted to the wrong thread. you need this one.
b) those patches are for 1.4.5
c) that is not a system menu patch. that part you noted about the wiki is from the phone app's preferences/settings.

If you are looking for the forced roaming or roaming enabled settings for webOS 2.1 and the device menu patch, they are there. Check the wiki for the Advanced System Menus 2x wiki page.

Are you referring to the Advanced Configuration for System Preferences

What wiki page you reading? The Advanced System Menus wiki page doesn't have a section like you posted above.

You must be looking at the Advanced Configurations wiki page. In which case...

a) you posted to the wrong thread. you need this one.
b) those patches are for 1.4.5
c) that is not a system menu patch. that part you noted about the wiki is from the phone app's preferences/settings.

If you are looking for the forced roaming or roaming enabled settings for webOS 2.1 and the device menu patch, they are there. Check the wiki for the Advanced System Menus 2x wiki page.

Are you referring to the Advanced Configuration for System Preferences

The other thing to think about is what service to use when polling the weather. Would that have to be customizable? Possibly due to users being from all around the world.

Garrett's patch I think pulls from Yahoo. There is weather.com, accuweather, wunderground, etc... not sure on accuracy of those sites, APIs available for use, etc...

It seems a lot of the weather apps for webOS use many different sources.

The other part is the weather is tied to one location. Would that be able to be changed based on location or a way to quick input a zip or other data instead of needing to use GPS...

I think it is all very interesting and depending on how it is setup, I'd be all for something like this, especially if you could have a way to say put it in the middle where Sconix's today menu is, but still give access to the today menu or by doing something different to access a "weather" menu that shows more locations... Something method for showing the today menu one way and a weather menu another way.

Maybe an app is the best place for it then. Maybe there could be a front end app that controls the menus or something.... that would be awesome!

Maybe this is a silly suggestion, but can't you enable the weather calendar in Google calendar & then the local weather automatically shows up in Calendar app. I can't test this since I have 2.0.1, but if I remember right, this worked on my Pre Plus with the old version of this patch.

Maybe this is a silly suggestion, but can't you enable the weather calendar in Google calendar & then the local weather automatically shows up in Calendar app. I can't test this since I have 2.0.1, but if I remember right, this worked on my Pre Plus with the old version of this patch.

The today menu will show the temp if you have the weather setup in Google calendar. Probably not as robust as some would like, hence why I think people really like Garrett's weather in top bar patch.

or would it help to reinstall an old patch version manualy?
where could i download it?

No it would not help, the same problem exists you have modified files that patch cannot apply.

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Sounds good!
Will this include the ability to show battery percent beside of the icon?

Well I can say that there is more than just an icon or percentage selection choices In the future maybe more than in the next release...

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With the upcoming updated today menu it should finally work for everyone, meaning that all events will now show up correctly (or at least in the same way than in the calendar app).

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Practically every time I wonder, "Hmm, does this patch do this?", I come here and find out, Yep, it does. I need Forced Roaming and Media Volume in the device menu, so happy to see it is there with a couple of taps. Thank you, sconix.